I was just given a drug test!!!!!! [View All]

[StellaBlue]

WTF?!

I got a job at the local bank as a filler and money-saver for about three months while I look for a job elsewhere and more suited to my qualifications and experience. (I just returned to the US from living in Europe for four years.)

The job was secured when I went in to talk to the president of the bank, who is a friend of my dad's... it lasted all of five minutes, and I was hired.

Later the HR lady called me to ask me to go by the locak recruitment office. Thinking this was a bit weird, as I had been hired already, and directly by the president, I asked, 'Oh, so you do all your hiring through them, then?', to which she responded, hesitantly, 'erm... no... but we need you to fill out some forms and things, shouldn't take too long.'

I was curious all night. This morning I went over there and had to fill in a form with my DL#, SSN, and signing to say it was okay for them to do a background check, credit check, and drug test.

Then the lady took me into a back room and gave me the little cup! I was like, 'Uh... I wasn't expecting this, so I will need quite a bit of water, as I went before I left my house.'

So then I wasted another half hour drinking tons of super-cold water (on am empty stomach!), and was finally able to pee in the cup. She wouldn't let me wash my hands or flush the toilet until she had checked it.

I was negative (duh). Then she was like, 'Okay, we'll send this over there, thanks.' And that was IT. Not even a typing test. Nothing.

If it wasn't for the fact that my dad got me job, and his friendship with the president, and this being a really small town (well, no, actually, I don't care about that at all!), I would've refused. Never in my life have I been asked to take a drug test. It's silly and invasive and none of their damn business. Who are they, the police?

To my line of thinking, if it doesn't interfere with my ability to do my job, it's none of their damn business.

WHEN DOES CHIMPY McCOKE-FACE have to take one?

I called my mother when I got back to tell her about this hilarious/upsetting incident, and she told me that about thirty years ago when my grandmother worked at the local drugstore, they made her take a polygraph every six months! WTF?!

Why do poor, hardworking people, who are taking the LOWEST jobs in society, have to do this? Why don't members of Congress or CEOs have to do it? Not only is it much more pertinent to their job whether they are thinking with a clear head, but I personally think that a higher percentage of them would be on drugs!

I am really glad I said no to a smoldering joint that was offered me a few weeks ago... although I have to say I kind of think it would've been REALLY funny if I had failed it.

This is not only the first time I have taken a drug test, but it will be the last. I don't care that my RW relative says, 'Well, a lot of places make you do that now' and 'If you're working for them, it's their business'. What's next? Tests to see if you drink alcohol? If you eat meat? If you're a loyal brainwashed sheep-patriot?

:grr:

I am shocked. Just shocked. I feel personally invaded, humiliated, and put down.